Florida Action Committee (FAC)

If you are listed on the Florida Sex Offender Registry but no longer living in Florida, we are organizing a lawsuit to challenge your continued placement on the public registry. The intent of the public notification component of the Sex Offender Registry is to notify the public of “potentially dangerous” people in their communities. People who are no longer in

Last month, Ron Book was out with his “Homeless Trust” to count the homeless in Miami-Dade. Yes, literally, to manually count the homeless. According to this article, the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust counts the homeless twice a year in January and in August, but “tonight’s count is the one that counts for federal funding.” Counts for “federal funding”… no wonder Ron

TALLAHASSEE Should Ron Book, the mega lobbyist and lawyer who represented the sexual harassment victim whose testimony led to the resignation of Sen. Jack Latvala, be banned from lobbying the Legislature? [FAC COMMENT: YES, YES, YES!!! PLEASE END THIS CORRUPTION] That was the effect of the amendment before the House Public Integrity and Ethics Committee Thursday on a bill that

The opinion in People v. Tetter, which came out a couple days ago, is another great decision to add to our growing list of cases where courts have found the registry to be “punishment” and conditions of the registry have crossed the line into irrational. Kyle Tetter was 21 when he met a girl on an online social media app.

Florida is one of only four states which permanently disenfranchise felons. It is estimated that 1.5 Million Floridians have been stripped of their right to vote and one in five African Americans in the state can’t vote. The process to get voting rights restored is arbitrary, prolonged, unfair, subject to the whim of the Governor and his partisan cronies and